Wow! Such a good movie.
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... View MoreGreat example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
... View MoreAn initiation task for a pair of pledges as part of a ceremony inducting them into a college sorority goes horribly wrong when a live round finds itself into a gun in a game of Russian Roulette, resulting in the death of a pledge. Years later, the surviving sisters are adults & lead various lives. They are contacted out of the blue for a reunion party in Mexico. But upon arriving at the secluded mansion for the party, they find the place belongs to the dead pledge's father, who is determined to find the person responsible for his daughter's death despite the police ruling it an accident. The sisters & a pair of male gatecrashers find themselves trapped inside the property by electric fence, slowly picked off one by one by the secret killer in their midst.God bless the dirt-cheap budget DVD labels – how else can you find minor gems like Sisters of Death a good 39 years after its release? I initially thought that the film was going to be a borefest or a cheap telepic drama but once the film started, I saw that Sisters of Death was capable of much more than that.Sisters of Death is a thriller that may have been made years before the slasher film became a fixture of the genre, but it does have certain elements that would make it a slasher film prototype (HALLOWEEN came out two years later). The plot reads like a slasher film in some regards, although the killer doesn't use knives but various methods to kill their victims & the killer's identity doesn't become clear until the very end, which when seen is an effective surprise. The actors do a good job of carrying the film along, which was a hallmark of the genre at the time – 1970s genre films were a bit talky but made a considerable effort to compose solid stories into their being. The setup is solid & the story is interesting, although it does veer into daytime telepic territory at times. Not a classic by any margin but it does have an interesting story & the twists are pretty novel.
... View MoreThis is definitely one of the more obscure entries in the slasher world, seems as though this one came out before the famous Slasher boom of the 80's and just before "Halloween". "Sisters Of Death" is a somewhat odd and interesting entry with mixed results. This movie almost never gets mentioned on any forum or discussion and I can't really see why, it's not a bad movie by any means but not a great one either, but I have a somewhat soft spot for it, the storyline is pretty basic we get five members of a sorority invited to a Mexican villa and are soon terrorized by a serial killer who is seeking revenge for something that happened many years ago. This does kind of echo "The House On Sorority Row" in my opinion and has true potential, but overall this movie is rather plain and disjointed and very little blood or gore, but the twists and turns that this movie takes are pretty effective and even surprised me, especially the ending which was totally out of leftfield but I rather enjoyed.The cast were also decent enough the women were very lovely and acted rather well in their individual roles, Cheri Howell stood out for me, she was one of the more interesting cast members and Claudia Jennings was another highlight especially during the climatic scenes.All in all "Sisters of Death" is a rather decent entry, but not quite memorable enough to be considered a classic within' the genre but I still found it rather enjoyable.
... View MoreWhen a sorority initiation ritual ends in murder the five surviving sisters go their separate ways. Seven years pass and they are all invited to a secluded mansion, complete with a ten-foot high electric fence surrounding the estate, by an unknown host. They are escorted to the estate by two guys, one horny and the other bright, and are then dispatched one by one by the father of the sorority pledge they accidentally murdered seven years ago.This film plays like a drive-in slasher flick but lacks all the exploitative ingredients that define the drive-in classics. There is absolutely no gore and very little skin. The death scenes are boring and borderline ludicrous, but I enjoy subtlety when cinema deaths are the main course - too often film-goers need to see things take place since they are incapable of using their imagination. That being said, this 70's slasher does justice to its PG rating. Also, look for the boom mic being visible at the pool scene when Cheri Howell tells the two guys to drift.VIOLENCE: $$ (Like I mentioned before, the violence is tame. There is a strangling, stabbing and an electrocution and a guy gets attacked by a vicious canine - which somehow wasn't noticed the first day of the party. Every dog that I've ever come across has a tendency to bark when strangers are in its midst - but not this pooch).STORY: $$$ (A by-the-numbers script becomes extremely convoluted at the end when a series of twists take place. These twists give the viewer the inclination that the script was rewritten ninety times on set. Character development was actually quite solid for the genre. The story painted a decent picture of how the girls lived their lives after the murder. Two of the girls became success stories, at least financially, one became a hippie, the fourth a wayward hitchhiker and the fifth, who was the least defined, a woman with irritable bowels).NUDITY: $ (All you get here is a side view of Claudia Jennings as she changes into a bikini - nothing more).ACTING: $$$ (The acting was quite good for the genre as well. Par for the course, Claudia Jennings shines as Judy, the pledge who was seated beside the murdered girl. Cheri Howell does the best job, one of only a handful of films the raven-haired beauty was ever in. She was perfect in her role as the calculating, cold-as-ice Sylvia. Sherry Boucher did a decent job as the hitchhiker and Joe Tata, as the dude with a raging libido, also gave a good performance. Carr, as Tata's partner was good too but Howell gets the nod for best performance).
... View MoreIn the same vein as Ten Little Indians, Sister's of Death does the 'invitation' thing some years before Paul Lynch's Prom Night and even before Class Reunion Massacre from 1976.Sorority girls are holding their initiation for two inductees that involves a pistol/murder in which one of the 'Sisters' would load the gun, place it to the inductee's head and pull the trigger. Of course, the blank bullet is just supposed to make a loud noise and that's it. But, in this case, it splatters the girls brains and the rest is history.Anyway, it's a few years down the road and the ex-sorority girls receive and invitation and five hundred bucks to attends a 'Sister's' reunion. They are supposed to meet in a designated spot where two guys with a beat-up station wagon (with sheets over the windows) are to pick them up and take the them to their destination, where they themselves are to make a couple hundred bucks.After all the girls finally make it, the two guys drive the girls to their location. one of the guys talks his friend into staying and partying with the girls and soon learn they're stranded on the property. An electric fence keeps them on the premises while an unknown specter roams throughout the mansion spying and doing away with the girls one by one.Sister's of Death is a film that does a lot of cliché' things before it was cool to do so. The acting is surprisingly good for a drive-in caliber flick. There's copious amounts of cheese that accompanies the actions and dialog of our characters, and a twist ending that I never saw coming. Just who is it that is taking the girls out one by one? Just whose revenge mode is set on high and what lengths will they go through to extend their murderous rage? Watch and see.
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